Good luck finding a few good hands.What are they paying??Are you getting any sub pay??How about overtime??Work on Patterson 136 until i got layed off around the end of april.Froze my a44 off on that old rig last winter.Before they laid us off,they took away are sub pay,safety pay and cut are hourly wage by $3.We still go bottom hole!Anyway ,i keep a jug of invert in my garage and everytime i think about going back i stick my hand in it!!Now iam hauling oil!!Did not mind the work or days off,just that working the night shift on that old rig last winter Suck!Now i get to go back to some of the wells that i work on and see what they are produceing!!Wish i had a couple on my l land

Cyclone is the laughing stock of the drilling industry. Poor safety record, junk equipment and notoriously employees the chemically dependent. I'd wipe a$$es in a nursing home before working for Cyclone.

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Cyclone is the laughing stock of the drilling industry. Poor safety record, junk equipment and notoriously employees the chemically dependent. I'd wipe a$$es in a nursing home before working for Cyclone.

murdock1978 Said:
Good luck finding a few good hands.What are they paying??Are you getting any sub pay??How about overtime??Work on Patterson 136 until i got layed off around the end of april.Froze my a44 off on that old rig last winter.Before they laid us off,they took away are sub pay,safety pay and cut are hourly wage by $3.We still go bottom hole!Anyway ,i keep a jug of invert in my garage and everytime i think about going back i stick my hand in it!!Now iam hauling oil!!Did not mind the work or days off,just that working the night shift on that old rig last winter Suck!Now i get to go back to some of the wells that i work on and see what they are produceing!!Wish i had a couple on my l land

Murdock, you always crack me up!

I worked in the oil patch during the mid 80s and we didn't get safety pay (if lucky the pusher would toss you a few pairs of company gloves every few months), bottom hole pay, or subsistence pay. Towards the latter 80s we just considered ourselves lucky to be employed and were tickled when we got driving time (more the norm on workover rigs).

Inverted mud, that would be mud made partially out of diesel fuel for those not familiar with the stuff. It SUCKS! As a matter of fact, one cold February while chaining out of the hole up by Charleson is where I had a sort of epiphany. I looked across the rig floor at the guy working motors and thought "that poor bastard is 60-something...not effing way I am going to be out here when I am 60!".

On my next long change I got drunk with the Marine recruiter (already knew the guy) and said why not. Have never regretted it.

Anyway, good luck on finding a crew there Flocknocker. The rig count is low enough to where there has to be somebody looking for a job.

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” ~ Mark Twain

Hey Allen i work the rigs also from 1978 to1983.Started out in ND,the montanaEnded up in Rock springs,wyo for 2 years.We got $35 a day sub in wyo and the first year there we got in every day.even our days off.We also got driving pay or windshield bonus it was called.There was no saftey pay or drug testing.When i went back in June of 2008 right in the middle of the boom,the pay was excellant and they really push the saftey issue,[plus we were hair tested for drugs about every month andif somebody has a recordable accident-every body got drug tested right away.The saftey pay was a good thing it made everybody look out for each other and work more safe.If somebody got hurt you lost that money!And allen i was the oldest guy on our crew on the Patterson rig!

Murdock, you old salt. Never knew you were in the patch even before me. I started with Grace in 84, just one of many I worked for before leaving the patch behind in 88.

Can someone elaborate on why Cyclone is such a safety concern? Junky equipment is one thing, but a person can still be safe with junk and nothing spells safety on the rig more than your fellow crew members.

Is it more of a corporate push from above to ram and cram?

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” ~ Mark Twain

I worked on Nabors 44 2007-2008 by Killdeer, derrickhand most of the time. I would have to be hard up to work for Cyclone tho...

Cyclone is considered unsafe due to their practice of throwing chain to spin up the pipe and the structural integrity of their rigs... I don't think their that bad... just dirty.. .In more ways than one.

Flocknocker , Myself and a friend are heading out to North Dakota by the end of the week , can u set us up with jobs Floorhands Whatever, we are in good physical shape and ready, My Number is 435-287-9240 Norman Call me back if you still need a good couple hands. Thanks!

Hope you guys already have housing lined up, if not, might as well stay home.

NAM Said:
Flocknocker , Myself and a friend are heading out to North Dakota by the end of the week , can u set us up with jobs Floorhands Whatever, we are in good physical shape and ready, My Number is 435-287-9240 Norman Call me back if you still need a good couple hands. Thanks!

NAM Said:
Flocknocker , Myself and a friend are heading out to North Dakota by the end of the week , can u set us up with jobs Floorhands Whatever, we are in good physical shape and ready, My Number is 435-287-9240 Norman Call me back if you still need a good couple hands. Thanks!

And its going to be eleven below zero temps tonight. thats a -11* that means it takes about 10 minutes of exposer to do some serious damage, and about 20minutes to kill if you arent prepared or think you will sleep in your car. Most hotels and apartments in the patch are 99.9% booked

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NAM, for our own good, I seriously wouldn't recommend just driving up here without a plan. This winter has been easy so far but Utah winters still pale in comparison. And we are now finally starting to get cold. Get some housing worked out before you come because it will be some miserable time in the Walmart parking lot, (if any room is available), if you dont and as johnr said, it could possibly kill you. Just because the natiaonal news says you can make a quick buck here, doesnt mean its a good idea.

Is it impious to weigh goose music and art in the same scales? I think not, because the true hunter is merely a noncreative artist. Who painted the first picture on a bone in the caves of France? A hunter. Who alone in our modern life so thrills to the sight of living beauty that he will endure hunger and thirst and cold to feed his eye upon it? The hunter. Who wrote the great hunter's poem about the sheer wonder of the wind, the hail, and the snow, the stars, the lightnings, and the clouds, the lion, the deer, and the wild goat, the raven, the hawk, and the eagle, and above all the eulogy to the horse? Job, one of the great dramatic artists of all time. Poets sing and hunters scale the mountains primarily for one and the same reason--the thrill of beauty. Critics write and hunters outwit their game primarily for one and the same reason--to reduce that beauty to possession. The differences are largely matters of degree, consciousness, and that sly arbiter of the classification of human activities, language. If, then, we can live without goose music, we may as well do away with stars, or sunsets, or Iliads. But the point is we would be fools to do away with any of them.

There is quite a few rigs looking now, took much longer this year but once the temp falls and the wind hits even on the very well sheltered rigs there is a lot of walk -offs. That has been the hot subject around here the past wekk is guys scrambling for hands.

I dont go around guessing cup sizes either I just know a nice rack when I see one.

Meelosh Said:
NAM, for our own good, I seriously wouldn't recommend just driving up here without a plan. This winter has been easy so far but Utah winters still pale in comparison. And we are now finally starting to get cold. Get some housing worked out before you come because it will be some miserable time in the Walmart parking lot, (if any room is available), if you dont and as johnr said, it could possibly kill you. Just because the natiaonal news says you can make a quick buck here, doesnt mean its a good idea.

NAM Said:
Flocknocker , Myself and a friend are heading out to North Dakota by the end of the week , can u set us up with jobs Floorhands Whatever, we are in good physical shape and ready, My Number is 435-287-9240 Norman Call me back if you still need a good couple hands. Thanks!

And its going to be eleven below zero temps tonight. thats a -11* that means it takes about 10 minutes of exposer to do some serious damage, and about 20minutes to kill if you arent prepared or think you will sleep in your car. Most hotels and apartments in the patch are 99.9% booked

NAM Said:
Flocknocker , Myself and a friend are heading out to North Dakota by the end of the week , can u set us up with jobs Floorhands Whatever, we are in good physical shape and ready, My Number is 435-287-9240 Norman Call me back if you still need a good couple hands. Thanks!

And its going to be eleven below zero temps tonight. thats a -11* that means it takes about 10 minutes of exposer to do some serious damage, and about 20minutes to kill if you arent prepared or think you will sleep in your car. Most hotels and apartments in the patch are 99.9% booked

NAM Said:
Flocknocker , Myself and a friend are heading out to North Dakota by the end of the week , can u set us up with jobs Floorhands Whatever, we are in good physical shape and ready, My Number is 435-287-9240 Norman Call me back if you still need a good couple hands. Thanks!

And its going to be eleven below zero temps tonight. thats a -11* that means it takes about 10 minutes of exposer to do some serious damage, and about 20minutes to kill if you arent prepared or think you will sleep in your car. Most hotels and apartments in the patch are 99.9% booked

NAM Said:
Flocknocker , Myself and a friend are heading out to North Dakota by the end of the week , can u set us up with jobs Floorhands Whatever, we are in good physical shape and ready, My Number is 435-287-9240 Norman Call me back if you still need a good couple hands. Thanks!

And its going to be eleven below zero temps tonight. thats a -11* that means it takes about 10 minutes of exposer to do some serious damage, and about 20minutes to kill if you arent prepared or think you will sleep in your car. Most hotels and apartments in the patch are 99.9% booked

Streakers have it tough at 11 below, but most don't die!!!

Depends what part of ND your in. For instance, go to weather.com and check out the 10 day forecast for Bismarck or Bowman, and then compare it to Pembina. Ridiculous.

Hey man i am a damn good roughneck & i am highly interested in working in North Dakota. I can work & am willing to work any position on the rig. I have 13yrs. experience & am willing to do whatever is necessary to get the job done. I am a team player & have never had any problems with getting along with others. I am working now but i have been looking & waiting for an opportunity to work up north. Give me a call anytime @(318)207-4948

Back in the day, men were made of steel and the rigs were made out of wood and Work was harder than it is now . We used get so busy and they never gave us time to eat so we would hang our sandwiches up on the rig with clothes pins and grab a bite on the run. We never could figure out why they were in such a hurry to get the out of the ground , It had been there 10 million years.

Building location

Picture of our brand new round steel kelly , Before this we used to throw 6 wraps of barb wire on the wooden kelly

Possum belly in sub dase

Draworks

pump

Now days it is easy to find a roughneck on the rig, If lightning struck the doghouse, it would kill everybody big enough to die.